Life with the Harrison's has been a little crazy lately...over the past two and a half weeks the boys of the household have endured high fevers, ear infections, sinus infections, hand-foot-and-mouth, multiple doctors visits, immunization shots and two courses of antibiotics. While I have endured little sleep, grumpy children, medication schedules, and lots of cartoons on the couch holding babies. Ellie and I have felt fine, and its a good thing too or else we would have had to call in for backup.
Sometimes I don't mind have a sick child or two because it makes me slow down and give all my attention and love to my kids. I can forget about laundry, dishes and bills to focus on the person in need. But things were getting pretty bad for a while. I've been feeling like a home bound hermit, but I'm hoping now that everyone is well again, life will go on as normal.
We celebrated Heath's birthday at the beginning of the month. We didn't really do anything special... We went shopping and got rid of the kids for birthday lunch at Red Lobster. (yum yum!) Heath did take an extra day off for the Labor Day weekend. We had great visit from Heath's sister Melissa and her family. The men went fishing and Melissa and I took the kids to the Science Museum, which was awesome! The kiddos had a fabulous time and of course didn't want to leave. There was all sorts of fun activities; ambulance, playing doctor, water table, virtual sports, combating the evil germs of the human body, all sorts of simple machine activities and so on...I think we could have spent three whole days there and still had more to see.
On Labor Day Monday we all went to the Zoo (again, my favorite place to go). The kids were loving the petting zoo, and we got to see the new flamingo exhibit.
We are lucky to be close to family and I'm happy that my kids get to make memories with their cousins. They can't wait until next time.
